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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four handguns, which I fire regularly at a range. I'm not an anti-gun wimp. In France there are stringent rules about gun ownership. France has urban crime, terrorist attacks and underprivileged minorities. Yet people here are not offing one another with guns at an alarming rate, and that's probably because it's not easy to get your hands on one. The n.r.a. and other mindless "patriotic" organizations that encourage the widespread proliferation of firearms are prime contributors to the U.S.'s shocking death toll. It would appear that Heston, who has run out of Saracens and Egyptians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 27, 1998 | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Quality education, affordable housing and heterogeneous communities are essential for rebuilding urban areas, Thomas M. Keane Jr. '78 told a group of about thirty at the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday afternoon...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate For Eighth District Seat Speaks at IOP | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...tried to halt urban flight by focusingon quality of life issues like schools, safety andinfrastructure, Keane said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate For Eighth District Seat Speaks at IOP | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...campers' urban roots are only one aspect of their lives which I have not experienced first hand. All nine of my campers are of predominantly African-American descent. I am white. All nine qualified for the free lunch program. I have the luxury of spending over a third of my summer earnings on travel. All nine live in a housing project in which drug use and violence are common-place. I live at Harvard University when I'm not visiting my parents in southeastern Utah. The list goes...

Author: By Jessica F. Greenberg, | Title: POSTCARD FROM BOSTON | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

After watching her get 27 inoculations for a slew of strange diseases and realizing that it's darn hard to get a good cup of java in the rainforest (even if you're in Java), I decided to spend my summer in the marshy, bug-infested, urban jungle of Washington...

Author: By Mark K. Arimoto, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

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